1. The Container
Evolution of a Global
Fortune 500 Company
with Docker EE
Jeff Murr
Director, Engineering
Container and Open Source Platforms

2. Welcome

3. Agenda

4. MetLife
A global leader in insurance

5. About MetLife
• Global Fortune 500® 128 Company
• 100 Million Customers in 50 countries
• $500 Billion total assets under investment
• $63 Billion in revenue in 2017
Life P&C Annuity Dental Disability Health Legal
FORTUNE 500® is a registered trademark of FORTUNE® magazine, a division of Time, Inc.

6. From the Fountain Pen to
Cloud1868
• The Universal Stock
Ticker is patented
• MetLife sells 1,477
policies for $4.3M
1950’s
• First large scale
computer: UNIVAC
• $45.4 B in force covering
33M persons
1980’s
• $300 billion in force
• First consolidated claims
app
400+
Systems of
Record
1920’s
• Paying 1,029 claims per
day
• One claim every 28
seconds

7. FiveIT Spend
Investing in innovation is hard at
MetLife
Maintenanc
e
Number of on-prem
deployment models (3) and
public clouds (2)
Innovatio
n
80%
Mainframe
20%
Currency

8. New digital requirement and
solution
“We need something called a “Docker C-O-N-T-A-I-N-E-
R”?”

9. MetLife at DockerCon Austin
Ok,
now what?

10. GSSP Business CapabilitiesPolicy
Administration
New Business
& Enrollment
Billing
& Remittance
Claims
Management Sales
• Policy Portfolio
• Policy Details
• Policy Documents / Forms
• Fund Details
• Fund Transfer
• Coverage Changes
• ID Cards
• Dependent / Beneficiary
Changes
• Loan Disbursements
• Asset Allocation Rebalancing
• Policy Expiration Initiation
• Reinstate / Reissue Policy
• Non-Customer User Access
(Call center agents, Brokers,
Agents, HR Admin)
• Customer Tax Reporting
• New Client Enrollment
• Existing Data Maintenance
• Plan Coverage Amount
Calculation
• Insured Tiered Group
Maintenance
• Insured List Maintenance
• Enrollment Period
Maintenance
• Client Application Status
Tracking
• Client Application Search
• Supplementary Benefit
Enrollment
• SoH Submission
• Worksite Enrollment
Processing
• Bill Details
• Bill Payments
• Bill History
• Payment History
• Payment Profile
Maintenance
• Consolidated Billing
• Quick Pay
• Overdue Payment
Collection
• Bill Comparison
• Bill Corrections
• Payment Reconciliations
• Claim Center Profile
• Claim Details
• Claim Status
• Claim History
• Claimant Information Intake
• Claim Submission
• Potential Fraud Identification
• Claim Validation
• Claim Payment Account
Maintenance
• Explanation of Benefits
• Prospect Management
• Online Quotes / Illustrations
• Manage Quotes /
Illustrations
• Apply Online
• Save and Retrieve
• Process Application / Simple
Underwriting
• Manual Underwriting
• Bind Coverage
• Present Policy
• Process Payments
• Product Bundling
• Agent Dashboards
• Needs Analysis
• Agent Worklist Reminders
Common Functional
• User Registration
• Lost Credential Retrieval
• User Access Authentication
• Profile Maintenance
• Document Upload
• Specialized Disclosure
Maintenance
• Marketing Content
Maintenance
• Notification Preference
Maintenance
• Provider Search
• Analytics
• Document Upload History
• User Feedback Intake
• Click-to-Call / Click-to-Chat
• Email / Text Notifications
• Responsive UX
• Product Content
Maintenance
• Non-standard integrations
• Customer Usage Data
Reporting / Metrics

11. Impact on Infrastructure
SERVER
HYPERVISOR
GUEST
OS
GUEST
OS
GUEST
OS
SERVER
OPERATING SYSTEM
CONTAINER ENGINE
BIN
APP1
BIN BIN
VMs
Container
s
APP2
APP3
APP4
APP5
APP6
APP7
APP8
APP9
BIN BIN BIN
APP1 APP2 APP3

12. Web
App
Data
NodeJS API Proxy Web Proxy
Claims New
Business
Open
Enrollment
MongoDB
MONOLITHIC
ARCHITECTURE
MICROSERVICES
ARCHITECTURE
• GSSP has 66 discrete microservices
• 264 application runtime environments
‒ 66x2=132 for H/A
‒ 132x2=264 for Prod/DR
• 264 Cores, 528 GB RAM, and 1584 GB
storage just to run Linux
• 264 discrete things to manage
Microservices: Impact on Infrastructure

13. Linux Mainframe Azure IBMWindows
Disparate IT Infrastructure
Existing solutions are operational
islands
EnterpriseApplicationPortfolio
Traditional
& ISV
Public Clouds
Microservices/
Cloud Native
Virtual
Physical
Shared Platforms

14. Linux Mainframe Azure IBMWindows
Disparate IT Infrastructure
Docker EE addresses all deployment models
EnterpriseApplicationPortfolio
Traditional
& ISV
Public Clouds
Microservices/
Cloud Native
Virtual
Physical
Shared Platforms
Docker Enterprise Edition
The only Containers-as-a-Service platform for IT that
manages and secures diverse applications across
disparate infrastructure, both on-premises and in the
cloud

15. CaaS optimizes existing infrastructure investment and operational model
Multi-Architecture
Operations
Infrastructure Independence
Secure Software
Supply Chain
COST SAVINGSENGINE FOR INNOVATION
DOCKER ENTERPRISE EDITION

16. Extreme value opportunity
“So, now that we can do... What if we…”

17. The Docker MTA POC Program
Existing
Application
Convert to
Docker EE
container
Modern
Infrastructure
App
Azure
Docker
Enterprise Edition
Consulting
Services

18. The MTA POC at MetLife
1
App
Do not
call/Opt-out
1
Day
Time to
containerize
1
Technology
Apply to
other apps

19. App Candidate Characteristics
Architecture
• Custom web/service
apps
• 1 to N tier, single to
multiple servers
• Small data sets
Frameworks
• Focus on but not limited
to .NET
• ASP.NET
• ASP Classic
• Java
Authentication
• Windows Active Directory
• Oauth, Federated
• SQL Auth
Networking
• Dynamic IP
• DNS lookup
Session State
• Externally stored
• Stateless
Isolation
• Applicable to run in
standalone environment
• Identify all firewall
dependency of back end
systems or record

20. Things to consider
File based logging and aggregation
Monitoring (infrastructure, host, container, application)
Breaking previous convergence practices of technology
Environmental differences traditionally handled at deploy time

21. Pick the team
Avanade
Cloud
Engineer
Cloud
Engineer
Application
Specialist
Technology
Specialist
Development
Tools Specialist
Container
Specialist
Docker Engineer Avanade
DevOps Engineer

22. US Infrastructure Reduction
Forecast
+ +-70%
VMs
-67%
Cores
=10x
Average CPU
Utilization
-66%
Cost Reduction
593 Applications

23. US Infrastructure Reduction
Forecast
10%
Of the total portfolio
+ +-70%
VMs
-67%
Cores
=10x
Average CPU
Utilization
-66%
Cost Reduction
593 Applications

24. Docker Enterprise Edition creates
a self-funding model to fuel
change and innovation at scale

25. Roadmap and strategy
“Where do we go from here?”

26. Organizational Impacts
Don’t boil the ocean – start small; build a model around a technology
Create a strategy team and build ROI for strategic technologies
Leverages existing process and procedures
Improve overall stability without people disruption
Enable efficiencies and focus on innovation

27. Organizational Impacts
Don’t boil the ocean – start small; build a model and adopt a
technology
Create a strategy team and build ROI for strategic technologies
Leverages existing process and procedures
Improve overall stability without people disruption
Creates efficiencies and focus on innovation

28. Developers Operations
The MetLife Platform
Build Ship Run
Traditional
Third Party
Microservices
Private Image
Registry
Security scan
& sign
Code
Management
Tools
Policy Driven
Promotion
Globally Engineered Container Eco-System on Docker EE

29. Current Regional Projects in
flight
01. Liberty Server in Container
02. CaaS Implementation
03. BigData API Microservices
04. Mass conversion of Liberty Workloads
1.
Liberty
Server in
Container
2.
3.
BigData
API
Phase I
4.
Liberty
Workloads
05. BigData as a Service (BDaaS)
5.
BDaaS
MTA Project
CaaS
Development
Lifecycle

30. MetLife Container Journey
2017
Tight development
integration &
identify technology
roadmap
2018
Deliver initial ROI
and continue to
identify other
opportunities
Objectives Objectives
1. Global CaaS
Reference
Architecture
2. CaaS Rollout
3. DevTools Integration
1. Java Container
Migration
2. Data Mngmt and
Analytics
3. BDaaS
4. ASP.NET
A New Hybrid
Innovation
Engine
On
Prem
Cloud

31. Pattern for Success
Scope: Start small, but show value
Assess: Select the right app candidate, extrapolate value
Team: Create a strategy team
Enable: Leverage existing operations
Innovate: now in small decentralized cycles

32. Come hear more
Tim Tyler, Principal Solutions Engineer & Docker
Captain
Learn Fast, Fail Fast, Deliver Fast: The MOD Squad Way at MetLife
Tuesday, Oct 17, 14:00 – Transform (C1-M3)

34. Connect
Jeff Murr, MetLife
Director, Container & Open Source Platform Engineering
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffmurr/
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